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"A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else."
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"When we allow the genius of simple nature to flow through us we become every genius who has ever lived."

"Genius - the pursuit of madness."

"Labeled fools to the world are geniuses to the cosmos."

"Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble."

"A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does."

"Of all the things in the world, I'm particularly amazed at, is the conviction with which the MIND, endorses an Idea, which is phenomenal, as it differentiates the Genius from Mediocre, or not to forget the human stupidity in particular!"

"Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius."

"Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60."
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"Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due."

"Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking."

"NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi."

"I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats."

"Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain."

"Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table."
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